I was 3 rows back from this and didn’t know what was going on.Bit of grief in 552 in the first half with stewards. There appeared to be a big fat geezer who was plain clothes Wembley staff who was intent on trying to chuck out as many as he could. Spent all his time looking at fans.
VIOLENT CONDUCTStill can't say with absolute certainty whether that's red, surely there's a close up replay of that somewhere.
Yip he should have been off,you wonder what goes through a players head in that instance fucking less than 5 secs on the clock and he’s elbowing an opponent,anyhow karma caught up with him over his penalty...VIOLENT CONDUCT
Violent conduct is when a player uses or attempts to use excessive force or brutality against an opponent when not challenging for the ball, or against a team-mate, team official, match official, spectator or any other person, regardless of whether contact is made.
In addition, a player who, when not challenging for the ball, deliberately strikes an opponent or any other person on the head or face with the hand or arm, is guilty of violent conduct unless the force used was negligible.
There was nothing negligible about that, he might not have caught him full on but he swung the arm with force.
Dont know what block I was on.I was 3 rows back from this and didn’t know what was going on.
He wasn’t happy. His wife or girlfriend or whatever wasn’t happy. Handbags etc. I think three of them left and not sure what was going on.
Later there were a few more stewards to my left and a few rows in front dealing with something else. Seems like 552 was the place to be!
VIOLENT CONDUCT
Violent conduct is when a player uses or attempts to use excessive force or brutality against an opponent when not challenging for the ball, or against a team-mate, team official, match official, spectator or any other person, regardless of whether contact is made.
In addition, a player who, when not challenging for the ball, deliberately strikes an opponent or any other person on the head or face with the hand or arm, is guilty of violent conduct unless the force used was negligible.
There was nothing negligible about that, he might not have caught him full on but he swung the arm with force.
I can see what needs to be seen, he raises his arm to Aguero's face with force to stop him getting past.It certainly looks that way but like I said I can't say for certain with them shit angles.
Jorginho probably should have walked after 2 seconds. A booking at the very least (which would have seen him sent off in the 2nd half). Rudiger should also have gone after 2 yellow card challenges in the same play sequence - the second one being close to a red card in itself.
I 100% agree
What character this team has, Chelsea had 6 days off before the game, we had an away game in europe, and played nearly half an hour a man down, and came back from 2-1 to win, then today 4 of our best players subbed, and we still stuck at it to win a shoot out.
My wife thinks I'm weird, but I love penalty shoot outs, if you lose, well its disappointing, but I can cope (luckily I support a team that doesn't really lose them), but when you win, its the best way to win. To win a cup final that way is even better, that's three we've won at wembley now ;-)
Not that this matters in the slightest but I’m curious as to how Chelsea got to take the first penalty and shoot at there end. Did I miss something ?! I seen they won the toss but i thought they just got first choice not both.
Yeah its been covered earlier.Chelsea played Malmö on Thursday.
That's the way I feel too. Great to win and delighted for the confidence that will give Raheem.great win but at what cost. If Ferna and Laporte are out for "weeks" as Pep says, we seriously jeopardise our chances in the other 3 competitions, especially the league. The more games you ask them to play the higher probability they get injured, and both these injuries were non contact injuries.
Two coin tosses. The first to choose ends, the second to decide who takes the first penalty. We lost both but won the shootout.Not that this matters in the slightest but I’m curious as to how Chelsea got to take the first penalty and shoot at there end. Did I miss something ?! I seen they won the toss but i thought they just got first choice not both.
I'm not quite sure what I was watching on the tele yesterday because it quite clearly wasn't the Carabao cup final reported in today's papers. Most of the papers report a game in which Sarri's Chelsea first nullified a City team "well below their best" before looking more and more dangerous as the game wore on so that they should have won, only to lose because of the destructive effects of a row between goalkeeper, manager and Uncle Tom Cobbly.
My first observation is that yesterday was not Sarri's Chelsea or anything like it. It was much more like Mourinho's or Conte's Chelsea. Sarri had abandoned his "principles" and Chelsea had reverted to type, getting eleven men behind the ball so they didn'e concede. Back to the future! Thus was the first half played almost entirely in Chelsea's half with City trying patiently to move eleven Chelsea players around. It was not quite the anti football of Mourinho's heyday, not quite. Chelsea were playing on the break we are to believe, but they never actually broke. They had a plan not to ship six again, a plan not to lose but they never seemed to understand that it was a cup final and you needed a plan to win not simply not to lose.
In the second half Chelsea were the more dangerous team - we are told - with their quick breaks carrying real menace. Despite the fact that they relied on VAR to confirm a decision the replay simply didn't support to avoid losing, their menacing counters were very few and far between and they didn't result in a single attempt which was on target. They did produce one very good chance, but if your plan is likely to produce only one real chance it is no good moaning if you can't take it! Similarly, the affair between 'keeper and manager was a shambles entirely of Chelsea's own making. Willy may well have done better in the shoot out but we'll never know and it's not worth our bothering about - or Chelsea's since they'd rather make a very public spectacle of themselves than get the players the manager wanted on the pitch. What we do know is that Arrizalabaga was still off balance in his ludicrous attempt to put Sergio off when Sergio rolled it under his hand. Nearly a cock up from Sergio, but a real cock up from the 'keeper! This goes along with Mr Jorginho's ludicrously exaggerated leap and arrogant trickle of the penalty to the 'keeper's left. Sorry, you'll have to do better than that to trick Eddie! And then Luis whacked his against the post. Luis can take a good penalty - but he can also put them in orbit...or against the post. So, planning not to lose, having so few breaks you don't have a single shot on target is not going to win a cup final, nor is playing for penalties and then not being good enough in the shoot out. City were patient and backed themselves to be able to win in any one of the ways possible.